Allan Arbus (b. February 15, 1918) is an American actor notable for his role as psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman on the television series M*A*S*H.
Arbus was born in New York City of Jewish background, the son of Rose (née Goldberg) and Harry Arbus, who was a stock broker. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, where he first developed an interest in acting while appearing in a student play.
His first wife was photographer Diane Arbu...
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Allan Arbus (b. February 15, 1918) is an American actor notable for his role as psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman on the television series M*A*S*H.
Arbus was born in New York City of Jewish background, the son of Rose (née Goldberg) and Harry Arbus, who was a stock broker. He attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, where he first developed an interest in acting while appearing in a student play.
His first wife was photographer Diane Arbus (née Nemerov), whom he married in 1941. At one time before he became an actor, he was so taken by Benny Goodman's recordings that he took up playing the clarinet.
During the 1940s, Arbus became a photographer for the United States Army and afterward set up a photographic advertising business with his wife. Edward Steichen's noted photo exhibition The Family of Man included a photograph credited to the couple. The pair had two children, photographer Amy Arbus and writer and art director Doon Arbus. The couple divorced in 1959, and Diane Arbus...
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